The legend of Senhora da Penha says that one day when a shepherd was guarding the flock, he saw a group of malefactors who planned to rob him of the sheep. Having at that time invoked Our Lady who appeared to the shepherd mounted on a little donkey, whose footprints still today can be noticed in the granite, turned the day into night, thus preventing the theft was consummated.

The people of the village, seeing that in the mountains it was night and later knowing what had happened, decided to build a chapel to Senhora da Penha. He chose the site of Pouso, located at the foot of the mountain. But every time the works were started, they were mysteriously destroyed, and the people of Castelo de Vide came to stand guard at night to prevent such destruction which did not result.

It was only when the chapel began to be built at the place of the apparition that it was possible to complete it, and so it soar, look at the village. This church dates back to the 16th century. XVI. It is located at the top of the São Paulo mountain range, 1 km south-west of Castelo de Vide.

On the way up to the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha, there is a stone seat, on the left side of the access staircase, where everyone will sit to say a block that the elders sang: "Little Chair of Our Lady,Chair of my good;Where did Our Lady sitI sit down too "Tell the people that those who sit on the chair, lift their feet off the ground and ask for three wishes and not reveal them to anyone, those wishes would be granted. This church dates back to the 16th century. XVI. It is located at the top of the São Paulo mountain range, 1 km south-west of Castelo de Vide.

Its set consists of three volumes: nave, chancel and sacristy. The nave is trapezoidal, the ceiling is in vault of cradles and it pulls out of a straight cornice. On the north wall there is a niche and a marble sink for holy water.

On the west wall opens the triumphal arc of perfect return with a barred iron door, which communicates with the chancel. All the walls are lined with white tiles until the vault starts, next to the ground there is a skirplate of blue and white tiles forming chess. The main chapel is circular, the ceiling is a semi-spherical dome.

On the north wall there is an opening for illumination and on the opposite wall the access to the sacristy. The altar is placed in the West wall, it is of baroque style with a niche in the center that contains the image of Senhora da Penha. The whole set is tiled. The main façade opens three spans: the main door, a barred partition on the left, and a door in the shape of a four-leafed clover, surmounted by a panel of tiles representing Senhora da Penha. At the top of the pediment is a granite cross.

The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha, with its church of Nossa Senhora da Alegria and São Tiago, is a testament to the taste for this type of ceramic application, with patterns very similar to each other , in the village of Castelo de Vide.